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Isolation
Can a person feel completely alone in a room full of people, and is being alone
always a bad thing?
What do you think is the meaning of isolation? What is the difference between being isolated and lonely?
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Important Points
She avoided other outsiders because she feared that becoming friends with them would ruin her own social image and it will cause people to view her as unwanted too.
- Meaning of “tarred me with the same brush”: if she associated with the lonely, unwanted kids, people would judge and view her in the exact same negative way
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The narrator never managed to become part of a group because her family moved frequently, causing her to attend more than twenty different schools. As a result, she was constantly the "new girl" and an outsider. Additionally, her natural shyness made it even more difficult for her to make friends.
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Tuesday
What can we infer about the narrator’s feelings from the incident with her brother Mick and the gang?
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- Why did the narrator never manage to become part of a group at school?
- What can we infer about the narrator’s feelings from the incident with her brother Mick and the gang?
- Why did the narrator panic at the low wall on her first day at the new school, and how did she hide her feelings from others?
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. Do you agree with the narrator’s view that “we’re all on our own really”? Support your answer with evidence from the passage.